From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MFVBs-0000Ww-L1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:30:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E62B4E023B; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97B8E023B for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so11155851ywm.46 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:30:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=aDGtJbrImRYR9HN/65r1Aki63svjYEs/e0xmPZz0FV8=; b=bHsXmJSVLPRuiQl1//kFMGBnDHRY+Z7dUe3y+GX0jxHg5G3fqnRwWsOyyM1Br9zov+ Lo9AEOC19EqRYIXomJc7np0WMm1GzmYv1WthKBUt0WOot3X1dPPy+byN01Q7cmPUQjBd PcbKMGF3pckjOAlzjhyYxZlmvPS/sTSY1VExo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Chf2ezmFAoi8Q7fbZ7WDJiUWsdfGhMGWgKfMrQhE40mShUeS/Y2a24/zM9qB/Hd+7j TO+VJqdM2Zzpzmc51eSO2FbQ0KR1rW/nPngAN4+0IjJnZsxABch6If3JMdBSdW5vHSLf /fiRjlhTXCTid8bfXXxL/pEtiN2ZlOC8UTVk8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.151.121.12 with SMTP id y12mr9705955ybm.26.1244907042518; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:30:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <58965d8a0906122026l62f29aeer4131ad3e0d2c9898@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:30:42 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: a3f94e03245e3fc3 Message-ID: <58965d8a0906130830r742d83e1u886d9851bae50bd6@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard handling weird... in 2.6.30? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 331c2812-634e-4857-9e0d-e395a51ccaab X-Archives-Hash: c05a1444c04a27b1733040743cb22587 On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:00 AM, walt wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: > >> try this: Type some text, like >> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and then hold left arrow. Your >> cursor will move to the left until you release the key. Now try to >> hold the right arrow after you've already been holding the left arrow. >> It will start to move to the right. Previously, it would continue >> moving to the right after you released the left arrow. Now, the >> keyboard repeat STOPS once you release the PREVIOUS key. So, in other >> words, the repeating of the right arrow is stopped when I release the >> left arrow... which causes the cursor to stop, and causes me to become >> aggravated. :P > > Not very helpful, sorry, but I'm running the most recent 2.6.30 from > Linus and I don't see the same thing here. I'm not running the gentoo > kernel, though, so things may not be comparable. > > Have to say that I've never held down both arrow keys at the same time > before today. Apparently I do it all the time and never realized it. It affects all repeatable keys, not just the arrows, and it is driving me crazy. :) Thanks for testing! I will keep searching... I will also add that I am using a USB keyboard, in case it matters.